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VANDERBEKEN

Storify

Théâtre grec. Curation. Anthologie. Annuaire. Hypertexte. Navigation hypertextuelle. Humanisme numérique. Ieml. Milad Doueihi. No More Users. I just wrote a lit­tle piece about how to write soft­ware, and it con­tained a few ref­er­ences to the hu­mans who car­ry the mo­bile de­vices on which the soft­ware run­s, and who in­ter­act with it.

I found my­self re­fer­ring to these in­di­vid­u­als as “users” or “the user”. Gack; I hate that word. In fac­t, I hate it al­most as much as the word “content” which, in the Internet-biz con­text means “Words and pic­tures and sounds that you cre­ate and I monetize.” Any­one who us­es the acronym UGC in my pres­ence should pre­pare for a nasty re­ac­tion. Ad­ding to my dis­com­fort with the term “user” is that I now work in the mo­bile space; mo­bile de­vices are ex­treme­ly per­son­al com­put­er­s, and us­ing face­less terms for the peo­ple we are try­ing to serve just feels all wrong.

Technologie intellectuelle

Pertinence.